Still seems strange, having presidents on Twitter. But these are strange times.

I follow former President Barack Obama now, but not during his presidency. Not sure why, other than I figured he was too busy to actually post the tweets himself. His latest post, on June 22, had to do with health care - not an attack on the specifics of the current attempts at reform, but on how health care is about something bigger than ourselves, about the character of our country.

Obama linked to a lengthier post on his Facebook page. I don’t follow him on Facebook.

I would follow President George H.W. Bush, my favorite president, but he's not on Twitter. Don't be fooled by an account by his name. It's not him.

I follow about 300 accounts, mostly news, some sports, the occasional “famous” person, with varying reasons for fame.

I do follow Pope Francis. You can’t go wrong following the Pope on Twitter. From the looks of things, he posts a thought for the day. On Tuesday, “Sharpen your gaze in order to see the signs God shows us in reality.”

On Wednesday, “God looks with love upon every one of us.” What a great way to start the day.

I often wonder if his posts reflect the news of the day. I’m responsible for putting the Bible verse in the paper every day. Most folks wouldn’t know that, but my choices do tend to reflect what’s on my mind. On Friday, I selected a passage about humility. You can’t go wrong by choosing humility over ego.

On Friday, when America was still all abuzz over a series of tweets from our president about a pair of cable news anchors, Pope Francis posted: “There is great need to feed Christian hope, which gives us a new view capable of discovering and seeing the good.”

Perhaps his holiness was thinking about something else. He’s probably too busy to worry about cat fights. Perhaps he hopes to serve as a distraction from the cat fights.

The Pope’s profile, @Pontifex, fascinates me. He has 11.1 million followers, a much lower number than the number of Catholics in the world. President Obama has 91.4 million followers. Our current president, more than 40 million.

That intrigued me, so I looked. The eight Twitter accounts he follows? His own, in eight other languages.

He posts in Latin, with slightly more than 800,000 followers. Don’t tell them Latin is a dead language. That account, @Pontifex_In, follows eight others, the other eight languages in which the Pope tweets.

One of the languages in which his tweets are translated - Arabic. Just the sight of those characters, which I cannot read, caught a gasp in my chest and I started to cry.

He tweets even to those who may not follow his teachings. He extends his grace to those who may strongly disagree.

I don’t follow the president on Twitter. I don’t need to; everyone else tells me what he’s tweeting.

I do follow Pope Francis.

What a great way to start the day, and a perfect distraction from all the cat fights.